Originally Posted by HexRei

Definitely more conservative. Avoiding the political sense of the word, (hehe) I think conservative in this case is bad. Fighters deserve their shot. Premature stoppages are going to hurt the growth of the sport.


also, re: unanswered strikes, I do not believe the "unanswered" strikes are really the issue. The idea of answering strikes from the bottom is pretty silly. By your logic almost any fight that went to mount should be stopped almost immediately because you know until he escapes he's going to be basically blocking and eating punches, there's not much else to do when you're mounted. The ref needs to be watching the fighter to see when he is actually no longer defending himself, not counting the number of punches the guy on top is throwing.